Cities
Within Israel's system of local government, an urban municipality can be granted a city council by the Israeli Interior Ministry when its population exceeds 20,000. The term "city" does not generally refer to local councils or urban agglomerations, even though a defined city often contains only a small portion of an urban area or metropolitan area's population.
Largest cities or towns of Israel Israel Central Bureau of Statistics |
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Rank | City name | District | Pop. | ||||||
Jerusalem
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1 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | 780,200 | Haifa
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2 | Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv | 404,000 | ||||||
3 | Haifa | Haifa | 266,900 | ||||||
4 | Rishon LeZion | Central | 229,600 | ||||||
5 | Petah Tikva | Central | 210,300 | ||||||
6 | Ashdod | Southern | 208,500 | ||||||
7 | Beersheba | Southern | 194,800 | ||||||
8 | Netanya | Central | 185,000 | ||||||
9 | Holon | Tel Aviv | 183,100 | ||||||
10 | Bnei Brak | Tel Aviv | 156,700 |
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.”
—Randall Jarrell (19141965)